Late last year over a few beers with friends I decided I would enter the iPhone App market, that is to develop 1 or more mobile phone based applications to sell on the booming Apple iTunes store.
 
A few more beers later and I had come up with more than 10 applications that I would at the very least like to further develop conceptually, with a view to then building out... then commercialising the better ones.
 
I decided that the first app should be relatively straightforward to develop yet contain content that users would find valuable enough to want to 'buy'.
 
Some time ago I developed with my father a compact guide to the Rules of Golf in printed form (see below) that I believed would both work 'now' as a printed guide and an iPhone application.

To convert (and update) this guide to work on the iPhone would be a relatively straightforward exercise from a development point of view 'and' a great way as it turned out to learn the ins and outs (and there are many) of developing and submitting an iPhone application for sale in the Apple iTunes store.
 
Aside from developing the application itself we had to contend with Apple's terms of service, what pricing 'tier' the application should reside in for the various regions it would be sold in, how we would manage support (including being required to provide a separate support page within the applications website)
 
On the development side my father and I decided to hand the projects conversion from content to a working iPhone application to a family friend in the space... Paul Wilson.
 
He runs a web development business in Melbourne (you can visit his site here... http://www.sct.com.au) and despite this being his first iPhone application, I reckon he has done an amazing job... not just on the application itself but also in managing for us the process of working the application through Apple's approval process. No mean feat as anyone whom has developed an iPhone App will tell you.
 
The iPhone application was recently completed and uploaded to Apple's iTunes Store.
 
If you are interested in Golf and would like to have the most commonly used rules of Golf handy on your iPhone, then you can purchase the 'Better Sports Pocket Guide to the Rules of Golf' iPhone app for $1.19 AUD or $.99 USD (is also available in other regions for a similar price converted to 'that' regions local currency.)
 
Simply visit the iTunes store directly http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305594968&mt=8

... or you can visit the 'Better Sports' website here...
 
http://www.bettersports.com.au

... and click on the iPhone link to take you to the iTunes store.
 
Once downloaded, the app will look as per the following image.

If you like the Golf Guide app once downloaded, please post a positive review. Much appreciated.